How to shutdown windows 10 using shutdown shortcut?

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Tablets and mobile devices powered by Windows 10 operating system has a cool feature called “Slide to Shutdown gesture” feature. With this feature you can press and hold the power button to shut down your device. Though Windows 10 is packed with powerful features and there are a lot of Windows tips and tricks which can make its working even better but users often miss this swipe to shutdown feature on their PCs and laptops.

With a few simple tweaks we can achieve a feel of this cool slide to shutdown feature for our PCs and laptops as well and even on the non-touch screens.

Go to the newly created shortcut. Right click on it and click on properties.

Step 7 :

Go to the shortcut tab.

Step 8 :

Go to the bottom and click on the Change Icon button.

Step 9 :

Select a suitable icon image of your choice.

Step 10 :

Click Ok.

Step 11 :

Click Apply.

Step 12 :

Click OK again to complete the process.

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Once the process is complete you’ll have a shortcut on your system. To shut down your pc using this feature just double click on the newly created shortcut. This will launch Slide to shut down your PC. Click and drag it to the bottom of the screen to shut down your system. For touch screens you can simply use touch to drag it.